DEATH OF MR. ISAAC PLIMMER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 7

DEATH OF MR. ISAAC PLIMMER.

Mr. Isaac Plimmer, eldest son of the-Into Mh John Plimmor, died .. at his /-residence, Woolcombe Street, at 5 o'clock last, evening, after a long illness. Mr. Plimmer's death .marks; the . passage of unothor -pf.'iWellijig'tou's'. earliest' settlers.'. ;Ho ..was -born snfear Eiigliind;' 'and', came out. to; New Zealandiw'ith his parents in tho ship Gert•rudo'in tho, year IS-il,: which made-Welling-ton its'first..port' of, ca11.,;,1n common .with: 'other settlers; the gentleman' pas.sed •through'all the phases of life common to tho oarly ■ colonist, and he'possesßod. a fund of interesting 'reminiscencesxonporjijiig-, : of Wellington's infancy.' Mr. Isaac''Plimmor: : wao associated with'-his late father in-many, of his enterprises, but was hardly so'strenuous a character .as :tlio' bid'gentleman.'who beoamo known in later years as " the father of Wellington." Somo of/tho. older residents will remember • the ' deceased 'as liconseo of Barrott's arid tho Albert Hotels, apart .'from which ho< was during -his;lifa l concerned in several mor'cantilo enterprises; Only a 'few; weeks ago Mr. -Plimmer '.was 'informed.-that gome of tho contents of 'the' wrecked steamer Taranaki (in tho Marlborough Sounds) hail boon, recovered by a divor, and werq-.toing oxhibited in tho oity. He jocularly remarked that tho goods 'wore his; as he . was' tho'enly director of. tho Wreck Recovery' which raised tho Taranaki when' she was first wrecked,, and rart' her-iri -tlio' ton-Nelson service until she was lost aj,ain. ;

; Mr. Plimmor 'had been- a severe sufferer from diabetes for the "disease made such, inroads on his system that ho could not walk' out without becoming giddy. At 'an early hour yesterday morning' ho foil into a stupor, from which ho never; recovered.. Mr. Plimmef,'.whose wife predeceased him ' nearly; ;.oightqeri months ago,' loaves no family. Hisbrothers are Mossis.' John A. Plimmor, Charles I'limmer, and' • Henry, Plimmer, and., Mrs. Richardson , (of Hataitai) and Mrs. Herbert Gaby (of Kijbii;nic) arc sisters of thoV'dbceased, who was 74' years of age. Tho funeral will tako ploco tomorrow. -I